Text/Jia Jia
Editor/Ellow
Of all the gossip about Jing Tian, the slightest and easy to clarify is that she refused to let Donnie Yen hug.
This rumor seems to have a picture and truth, but it is actually some kind of malicious hype. Image from a TV "Special Identity" promotion ceremony in July 2013. The investor of this film is Jing Tian's financial owner "Beijing Starlight Brilliant Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd.", Donnie Yen is just a worker, how can he be rude to Jing Tian - according to the clarification of the audience, this scene is a group photo session Donnie Yen raised his hand to let Jing Tian go to the C position, but Jing Tian humbly took half a step back. Although this movie has a double reputation at the box office, in hindsight, it is meaningful to Jing Tian, because Donnie Yen threw out a famous sentence: she can be the next Michelle Yeoh.
Images caught in malicious hype (infographic)
In 2023, Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar laurels that every female star dreams of; Jing Tian is facing the biggest crisis since entering the entertainment industry: through the revelations of two senior reporters, the public has basically determined that world champion Zhang Jike handed over the private video of his ex-girlfriend Jing Tian to the debt collector after he owed a huge gambling debt. When the debt collector took these videos to extort tens of millions of dollars from Jing Tian, Jing Tian decisively called the police and let the debt collector go to jail. Although this incident happened around 2019, Jing Tian's name has not been fully exposed until now.
Even in the media circle, there is still great controversy over whether Jing Tian's behavior in order to hammer Zhang Jike is in line with professional ethics. But judging from the results, it is gratifying that the mainstream value of netizens is not "asking for videos", but appreciating the victims' decisive use of legal means to protect their rights - compared with the malicious peeping screen when the leaked nude photos door in the past, Jing Tian is much luckier than Cecilia Cheung's Gillian. Some people attribute it to the progress of the times, but this is not always the case.
When Gillian plucked up the courage to cry and admit that she was "very stupid and naïve", and when Cecilia Cheung bitterly complained about Edison Chen's "cat crying mouse fake compassion", they both put themselves in the position of absolute victims, and hoped to use their weakness to gain public empathy and understanding. This kind of thinking can be said to satisfy both the rigid and conservative crowd, and also disappoints some people who were originally open to male and female love. It is a cruel fact that in the field of public opinion, showing weakness is the most useless practice, and the best way is to show strength and satisfy people's mentality.
Jing Tian ("Si Ten" stills)
1. Adhere to the princess route, which has not changed
Over the years, when people talk about Jing Tian, the keywords are often inseparable from the mysterious gold lord, the rich and precious flowers in the world, strong and not popular, etc., relishing the bad luck she obtained under the blessing of mysterious power, or her long-term unawakened acting skills, or her smooth life of "being protected too well", but few people mention that she is actually a ruthless character.
This kind of ruthlessness is, first of all, the unwavering determination of the line that he has identified.
Jing Tian's first official debut news originated from a movie called "Crazy Python" in late 2006. During the promotion period of the film, she came to the Tencent.com chat room for an interview, and very frankly talked about many of her key choices in life: she entered the art troupe at the age of 6 to learn to dance, so she came to CCTV many times, welcomed US President Clinton to Xi'an as a children's representative, and "always played better than others when officially acting." But she doesn't like dancing and just wants to act, because only by doing what she likes will she have the initiative, "you can't say that parents don't fulfill their dreams, let their children realize them." Speaking of the role she wants to play the most, her first reaction is: the princess, not the rescued princess in fairy tales, but the princess with character, opinion, and her own ideas.
With the blessing of mysterious power, in the early days of her debut, no matter what role she appeared in and out of the play, her essence has always been a new type of princess through all eras, which is her own chosen positioning.
Jing Tian in "Python Horror"
In 2006, the first MV was made and the album was released, which was Zhang Yadong and Jianinghao's top combination to provide perfect service; In 2007, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, and he was successfully admitted with a "full score in composition" if he did not perform well; In 2008, he filmed a TV series for the first time, playing Liu Ye's daughter; In the same year, the first starring TV series was "The Legend of Sun Tzu", which invested 50 million yuan and was scheduled to be broadcast by CCTV, playing a Warring States Odd woman who fell in love with Zhang Fengyi and killed each other; In 2009, he acted in the fashion youth movie "My Beautiful Boss" for the first time, and he Rundong, who had just collaborated with Zhang Ziyi on "Very Perfect", performed a routine love between a big heroine and a herbivorous man.
The brightest moment was in March 2010, when a movie called "Warring States" started, Sun Honglei was poached from Chen Kaige's crew, and Kim Hee-sun, who had just returned after giving birth, and Jiang Wu, who had just exploded with the popularity of "Let the Bullets Fly", plus Wu Zhenyu, Nakai Guiyi, Guo Degang, Huang Haibing and other big names, after earning enough attention with the posture of a century-level epic blockbuster, at the opening ceremony, Sun Honglei took the Jing Tian model on stage, and the people suddenly realized: the investor can really play.
Jing Tian, who partnered with Sun Honglei in "Warring States"
This "Warring States", which had been filmed for a year, was released in April 2011, and its reputation quickly hit the street. On a media platform, a feature of "An Actress's Epic" became a hit, and the story began to circulate widely: the big L was a packaged J actress, shooting epic masterpieces, and offered a salary of 12 million to the tough guy actor S, and the price was so high that S didn't know how to refuse; In order to invite Hong Kong's character actor W, he opened a price of 6 times his market price (1 million) ...
In later interviews, Jing Tian mentioned the impact of this article on her many times: "The propagandist told her not to go to a certain website where a very bad report was written", but she said that she still read it and was very devastated. But in that time of interview, she has always insisted on one mantra: I am lucky, I am not good, I can work hard. In an interview with the famous host Li Jing, she also said very openly: I will also have questions if I change to another person to act in this movie.
The response to all kinds of true and false gossip is self-reflection rather than throwing a lawyer's letter, and at the same time, the filming should be on stage, if the acting skill is 50 points, this psychological quality is at least 90 points.
2. Those times that were missed
Jing Tian's starting style does make people have a sigh of "Fahai you don't know love, gold lord you don't know how to do".
Putting her in a big drama full of bones of various old dramas as the protagonist is like inserting a bad student in a genius class, which not only does not have the effect of holding the moon by stars, but also makes others destroy all the scum. After "Warring States", the direction of this kind of popularity seems to have changed, no longer following the old academic drama bone road, but casting the target in Hong Kong, with Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Wang Jing, Donnie Yen and other Hong Kong film classic icons, learning Michelle Yeoh to break through in the direction of "beating women" - at this time, a new paradox arises: the predecessors who are accustomed to various commercial operations know this game too well, they rush to invest to start work, make a wave of quick money and finish work, in fact, they will not seriously polish the work. Big investment may be exchanged for short-term emotional box office, but feelings will be consumed cleanly.
In the promotion of all Jing Tian's works, it is not difficult to find that she does not stir up scandals, does not play scale, and does not have to tear up bits for various reasons, and there is only one most commonly used routine: tell everyone how hard I work. When filming "The Legend of Sun Tzu" and "Warring States", she would talk about heavy armor and injuries caused by bad weather, and when filming Donnie Yen's "Special Identity", the main theme was "all the movements are completely real, and new injuries will be added to the body every day"; When filming Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall", the most rendered plots were "six months of devil training" and "with a protruding disc at the waist, hanging Weiya will be uncomfortable".
Jing Tian of "Stars Holding the Moon" in "The Great Wall"
In fact, to see the evaluation of various seniors after cooperating with Jing Tian, "she works hard" has always been the main technique. But the embarrassing thing is that the seniors have not spared to praise her, but the audience has never seen good works. Donnie Yen said that she was Michelle Yeoh's successor, and the masses did not see it. Zhang Fengyi said that she is "a talented woman who plays the piano and dances and fills in the lyrics, and this classical sentiment is rare among today's young actresses", and the masses did not feel it. Wang Jing said that "Jing Tian is an underrated actor", and no one took this seriously; As for Matt Damon's statement that "her English is impeccable", this emotional intelligence is impeccable. As early as 2007, when directing Jing Tian's first MV, the great director Ning Hao said to her: "You were born to be an actor, don't do other professions in the future." "——But the problem is that for so many years, Jing Tian has not acted in Director Ning's films.
There are too many smart people in the entertainment industry, so what kind of new clothes the princess wears is generally difficult to be exposed. So to some extent, actor Jing Tian should also thank "Warring States", and even thank it for its pounce on the street, and thank the old actors (Sun Honglei, Jiang Wu, Wu Zhenyu) and others for coming out and saying a few words of truth when they were ridiculed by the public opinion group. Jiang Wu said that Jing Tian is a smart girl who "knows what she wants." And Sun Honglei, the first starring of this movie, said a relatively realistic evaluation of Jing Tian's acting skills in an interview with the "Beijing News": "She is still a blank piece of paper, and she still needs someone to help her, she is so young, and she has no emotional experience, and when she encounters some very entangled and painful inner dramas, her performance inevitably lacks layers..."
Beijing News: From the current situation, do you think that her future path is easy to take with the experience of a person who has come over?
Sun Honglei: I think if you want to be a good actor, you have to go through this, there is no painful experience, where is the happiness? I feel normal, this is her life.
Teacher Sun Honglei is simply a prophet.
"Beijing News" interviewed Sun Honglei, original topic: Sun Honglei denies that sky-high salaries take over the drama There is no shortage of that little money and no black film party
3, the heroine of Shuangwen is not down
When playing back the debt incident of Zhang Jike, people turned to an interview after Jing Tian filmed "Si Ten", in which she mentioned that in 2019, during the filming of this play, she encountered a deep shadow that made her collapse, autistic, and afraid to walk out of the room, and then finally came out.
The great poet Du Fudu once sighed: The article hates life - life is too smooth, and good things can't be made. In a way, acting is the same. What is called "Little Red is close, Big Red relies on life, and strong is punished by heaven": Money can buy opportunities, but it has always used money to buy opportunities, crowding out the survival and development space of others, how can it not provoke public anger.
Jing Tian ("Si Ten" stills)
But Jing Tian is still ruthless after all, in the famous "Ice and Snow Weitian, very rich" group, now only she is still maintaining the frequency of one drama after another, not playing capital games, not forcibly transforming into a female boss, investor, nor forcibly mixing with the film festival red carpet, or using the C position to demonstrate in various Vanity Fair circles. In the early days of the industry, she relied on the company's ability to invest in money, but now, especially after she officially announced her singleness for the first time at the age of thirty, the situation has gradually changed.
She gradually has real fans, even if her acting skills are still not convincing, but the reputation of the selection is gradually recovering, although there is no high-rated masterpiece in hand so far (even "Sito" has not reached 8 points), but with this diligence, it is not necessarily impossible to become a real actor. The good mentality of washing his face without makeup in the live broadcast and facing doubts during the interview also makes people feel: a living Shuangwen heroine seems to be less annoying than all kinds of monsters.
To some extent, although she is taking the road of blossoming and hanging of rich flowers in the world, she has one point of empathy with migrant workers: she has chosen a career that she is not good at, and there is no turning back, so she has to go to the end crying.
The Zhang Jike incident has been fermenting for a while, but Jing Tian has maintained a valuable silence. She did not use public sympathy to do a wave of traffic business, as Cecilia Cheung did when she first sought a comeback, which is very wise, just as she was wise to take legal steps immediately when she was in the first place. Now there is only one suspense: when the character of the rich flower and happy princess in the world cannot continue, what posture she reappears in the work and appears in front of the public.
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